I go into a bookstore, I leave with no arm real estate left.

Paperbacks and hardcovers piled high inside the crook of each one.

I go food shopping, I’m out quicker than an Olympiad short distance runner.

But when I find myself in a bookstore, two things happen:

1) I don’t want to leave.

2) I buy too many.

3) An even greater emphasis on the first two points.

4a) Because…books?

© Eric Keegan 2020

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